RIALTO, NEWMARKET
Paramount’s first all-colour production, “The Vagabond King.” now being shown at the Rialto Theatre, in which Dennis King is starred, is the largest and most ambitious talking picture yet to be made by that organisation. Fifty-five mammoth settings are used in the production. Hundreds of tapestries, rich draperies, and mural paintings were secured by the property department to decorate the huge scenes in true Louis XI. manner. In the huge garden fete setting 10,000 genuine roses, in addition to mamhundreds of plants and other flowers, were used for decorative purposes. The entire cast of principals and several hundred extra players appear in this scene.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300728.2.149.19
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 15
Word Count
106RIALTO, NEWMARKET Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1035, 28 July 1930, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in